Girls Growing Up Quotes:

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

- Demi Lovato

source: Twitter post from Dec 24, 2011

topic: Beautiful, Curvy, Girls Growing Up, You Are Beautiful

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Love, Romantic, Broken Heart, Love Grows, War Love

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

- Sally Ride

source: Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Thinking, Walks Of Life, Girls Growing Up

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

- Marlee Matlin

topic: Girl, Growing Up, People, Brady Bunch, Brady

As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Boys, Girls Growing Up

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Kids, Homemaking, Girls Growing Up

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

- Gugu Mbatha-Raw

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Character, Biracial, Girls Growing Up

If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

- Mel White

topic: Girl, Mother, Growing Up, Inspectors, Curly Hair

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.

- Florence Welch

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Dancing, Girls Growing Up

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

topic: Girl, Mother, Growing Up, Girls Growing Up

There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don't feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.

- Demi Lovato

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Growing Up, Girls Growing Up

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

- Sara Bareilles

topic: Girl, Growing Up, School, Fat Girl, Girls Growing Up

I was a total bad girl growing up.

- Elizabeth Reaser

source: "Elizabeth Reaser on Broadway, Breasts and Playing Opposite the Big Boys — Brave and True". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, February 26, 2012.

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Bad Girl, Girls Growing Up

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Girl, Queens, Growing Up, Black Girl, Nordstrom

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

- Elisabeth Shue

topic: Girl, Sports, Brother, Girls Growing Up, Three Brothers